| Take My Bones Away | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Baroness |
| Album: | Yellow & Green |
| Released: | May 14, 2012[1] |
| Recorded: | 2011 |
| Studio: | Water Music Hoboken, New Jersey Elmwood Studio Dallas, Texas |
| Genre: | Progressive metal |
| Length: | 4:59 |
| Label: | Relapse |
| Composer: |
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| Lyricist: | John Dyer Baizley |
| Producer: | John Congleton |
| Prev Title: | A Horse Called Golgotha |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Title: | March to the Sea |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
"Take My Bones Away" is a song by American heavy metal band Baroness and the first single from the band's third studio album, Yellow & Green. The track was released digitally and on a 7-inch flexi disc included with the 63rd and 64th issues of the Austrian alternative music magazine Slam.[2]
The single was the first from Baroness to appear on music charts, spending nine weeks on the Billboard Active Rock chart[3] and four weeks on the Mainstream Rock chart. A music video was shot for the song over the course of one month during a spring tour with Meshuggah.[4]
A live version of the song, performed in Maida Vale Studios for BBC Radio 1's Rock Show with Daniel P. Carter, was included on an extended play titled Live at Maida Vale.[5]
Jon Hadusek of Consequence called the track "a souring anthem that’s as poppy as it is metallic," saying, "Baroness crams a lot into the song’s five-minute runtime and somehow pulls it off."[6] In his Yellow & Green review for Loudwire, Chuck Armstrong said "the band explodes into the first single, 'Take My Bones Away.' While this song is not necessarily representative of the sound of the entire record, it is probably one of the most accessible for long-time Baroness fans with its familiar sludgy sound."[7] In a review for Last Rites, Dan Obstkrieg wrote, "[the song] is reasonably on par with the Baroness of yestertimes, though the guitars punch in ‘rock’ mode only, and the vocals remain a hair smoother than a bellow...the entire thing is so clearly constructed around that admittedly huge chorus vocal hook that, once it’s been digested, there’s little else to grab on to."[8]
"Take My Bones Away" was named the "best metal song of the year" by iTunes.[9]